Suicide car bomb kills eight at Pakistan hospital

A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives outside a Pakistani hospital on Friday, killing at least eight people in an apparent attack on Shiite Muslims.It was the fourth attack in Pakistan since Monday and struck the outskirts of the northwestern town of Hangu, a flashpoint for sectarian violence that traditionally flares during the current holy month of Muharram."The bomber blew up his car at the hospital gate," said local police chief Abdul Rashid.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people in the deadliest insurgent attack on civilians since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.
The blast destroyed numerous mud-brick shops, flipped cars over and stripped trees of their branches, brutally underscoring the country’s instability as U.S. troops prepare to leave by the end of the year and politicians in Kabul struggle for power after a disputed presidential runoff.

A roadside bomb attack targeted a former Pakistan provincial cabinet minister on Sunday, killing him and three other people in the country's restive northwest, police said.The bomb exploded in Bagto village, about 10 kilometres (six miles) from the northwestern town of Hangu in an area with a history of sectarian clashes between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and minority Shiite Muslims."Four people, including Ghanni-ur Rehman (a former cabinet minister in North West Frontier Province) have died in the attack," Hangu city police chief Abdul Rashid Khan told AFP.

A suicide car bomb targeting a police station on Thursday killed five people and wounded 25 others in a restive northwestern Pakistani town, police said.A police officer and four civilians died in the attack in Doaba town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, while part of the police station was demolished and at least 10 houses damaged, senior local police official Abdul Rashid said."The bomber, riding an explosive-packed car, blew himself up near a police station, killing five people and wounding 25 others," Rashid told AFP.

KHAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 24 worshippers and wounding 28 others, officials said. Several children were also among those killed or wounded in the deadly attack.
The attacker shouted “God is Great” as he entered the mosque in the village of Ambar in Pakistan’s Mohmand tribal region, government administrator Naveed Akbar told The Associated Press. He said rescuers were transporting the dead and wounded to nearby hospitals.

Wissm al-Okili/ReutersThree suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State across Baghdad killed at least 80 people on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year.
Only hours later, another two car bombs killed more than 20 others.

Three people were killed and more than 20 injured on Saturday when a suicide bomber rammed a van packed with explosives into a police station in northwest Pakistan, police said."The attacker detonated his pick-up van at the gate of the main police station in Karak town" of North West Frontier Province, local police chief Sajid Mohmand told AFP. "Two policemen and one civilian were killed."At least 26 people were wounded, including 21 policemen, he added.Local hospital doctor Nazrul Islam said some of the wounded were in a serious condition.

BAUCHI, Nigeria — Two teenage female suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowded market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, according to witnesses and a security official.
Boko Haram, Nigeria’s Islamic extremist rebels, are suspected of the bombings, as they have carried out many similar attacks. The bombings highlight Nigeria’s ongoing insecurity in which 1,500 people have been killed by the militant’s insurgency this year, according to Amnesty International.